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How this district is preparing students for 2030–and beyond

eSchool News

Whether we like it or not, the fourth industrial revolution is fundamentally changing the way the world works–and educators have to rise to the task of preparing students for 2030 and beyond. “We And when it comes to preparing students for 2030, AI and its quickly-evolving state should be topmost in educators’ minds.

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Look Here: Predicting 2020 Requires 20/20 Vision

EdNews Daily

If trends continue unabated, by 2030 we may be looking at nearly 50 percent of school-aged children walking away from traditional public education in this country. The Esports activity they get to do, or the hands-on robots project that they’re going to do that they’re not going to do in homeschool. One out of every two children.

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Digital K-12 Classroom Online Summit | Feb 21-23, 2020

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for February 21-23, 2020 for the Collaboration in the Digital K-12 Classroom online summit ! The LIVE online event is scheduled for February 21, 22, and 23, 2020. REGISTER HERE Only 1000 tickets available! ** EXCLUSIVE All-Access Pass | Sales ends January 31, 2020 ** Get it for €69.90 (Euro) / $77.78 Put this in your calendar ??

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Can Creativity Be Taught?

Digital Promise

The report notes that by 2020 rapid technological change will make more than a third of the skills considered important in today’s workforce obsolete. But this year we had kids creating prosthetic body parts, making robotic arms from recycled materials, and producing stop motion video, among other things,” she says.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. According to Dell Technologies and the Institute for the Future, 85 percent of the jobs in 2030 don’t exist yet.

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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. By 2030, all baby boomers will be age 65 or older. These are priorities because demographers say a “ gray tsunami ” is coming.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. I don’t believe that Moore’s Law – that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years and therefore computers are always exponentially smaller and faster – is actually a law.

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